{"product_id":"9780345804327","title":"The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the Prix Médicis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the Best books of the Year: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad \u003c\/i\u003eis both the gripping tale of one woman's will to escape the horrors of bondage—and a powerful meditation on the history we all share.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958773895408,"sku":"9780345804327","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345804327_p0.jpg?v=1763688483","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345804327","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}